The Eclipse Foundation looks destined to remain a mistress to Microsoft and Sun Microsystems - while the platform is married to IBM.
The fifth annual EclipseCon this week saw a blockbuster project announcement and an almost shocking partnership.
News that Sun selected the EclipseLink project as the reference implementation …

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"Milinkovich is sanguine about Eclipse's relationship with Microsoft. "You see these headlines: 'Eclipse taking on .NET and Java'," he said. "Well, no, we're not. This is just the beginning of another open source project. I do like to think of it as Eclipse as having the potential to become the open source competitor to .NET, but these are early days."......

A battle already won well in Mr Milinkovich head. Bravo, Bold Knight/Tsar/Star.

And with the Corporate Markets in GridLocked in Losses and Lost Causes, a Perfect Playing Field for AIMaturer Rich Client Platform Funded Base.

And Eclipse Swingers/Change AIgents is yet another Parallel ControlLed Area in Reality Talking/Virtual Reality Staging ...."A reduced role for IBM on the platform project would leave Eclipse swinging for committers. Suddenly, the call for diversity sounds like reality talking."

Actually, a reduced role for IBM on the platform project would also leave IBM swinging for committers to new platform projects.